Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-02
DYNAMITER MOST.
Ha Is Put on the Witness Stand and
Questioned About His Belief, P0a
litical and Religious.
What He Wrote and What He Taught-Bis
Past L1fe-He is Found Guilty as
Ter Indictment.
THE JUDGE THREATENED.

THE JUDGE THREATENED.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Judge CoWing,
who is presiding ct the trial of Anarchist
Most has received an anonymous letter
threatening his life. The letter SAYS:
'It you charge against Herr Most you
will die. Death for ell officers is their
due of liberty"
Another letter, unsigned and contain
ing no threat, reminded the Judge that
Sharp should go to Sing Sing before Most
is again imprisoned. -
MOST'S CATECHIsM.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-When the trial Of
Johann Most was resumed this morning,
the defendant was called to the witness
stard to testify in his own behalf. He
denied threatening the executioner Of the
anarchists at Chicago or any one else.
The meeting Of Krsemer's hall st which
the alleged seditious speech was made
was, ne said, public one. Mr.. Schultze
WI 8 chairman and not Scheneck, as the
o lice testified. He addressed his hearers,
ne said, as "fellow Citizens" and not as
anarchists. He then went on to give his
version of the speech he made. 1t lacked
the threats ana violent language he is
charged as making. "On the cry of re-
venge being uttered in the audience"
he went on, 81 said mot now. The
capitalists are arraying against US. We
are here to accuse and l accuse Grinnell,
Gary and the judges of MURDER" He
had described P0wderly as instrumental
in the execution by not taking sides with
the anarchists. He was not sure that he
said he would give ten years of his life to
know the hapgman and that he would
strangle him. He had never said that for
every man killed in Chicago 500 would be
slaughtered. Most said he was q COM
munistc anarchist. awe do not fight
against any particular government" said
he. owe do not fight the government of
the Uuited States especially. We are OPP
posed to government as such. We think
the power held by the government should
be abolished"
"Bonbs and dynamite?" asked Mr..
Nicoll.
ayes; on both sides"
"Your idea is to conquer peaceably II
you can; by force if you mus.?"
"That is history. We believe force will
be necessary in time"
Mr.. Nicoll asked Most as to his belief
in supreme being and Mr.. Howe OBJ
iect' d.
''Do you believe in the existence of
supreme being who Furnishes those VINO
give false testimony in court?" was re-
peated by Mr.. Nlcoll and objected TO by
Mr.. Howe. Overruled.
Ans Wer-"I do not"
Mr.. Howe tried to mend matters. He
said:
"Do you believe in great first cause?"
81 say" said Most, as Socrates did,
1--WE know that we do not know"
On cross-examinstion Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Nicol questioned Most on
the record of
BIS PAST LIFE.
The prisoner said he had been convicted
OF treason in Austria in 1869 and had been
imprisoned one year. In 1870 he was
again convicted in that country of the
same crime and got five years sentence,
but gained his liberty in 1871 through an
amnesty granted to political prisoners.
In 1872 he was sentenced TO one years
Imprisonment IN Berlin for calling the
Emperor of Germany "slsughterer"
and "massacreer." III 1874 he was
sentenced to Imprisonment for one
year and six months for speech
made in Berlin On the memorial
day of the commune. In 1877 ne was
sentenced in Berlin to two months i'm
prisonment for blasphemy. Ia 1881 he
was sentenced in England to eighteen
months Imprisonment for applauding in
the Freheit the killing OF the Gear. When
he got out Of prison he came to this
country and has since remained here.
The witness admitted having written d
book on Gree Society,"" "SocisI Move
ments in Ancient Rome" "The Bastile OF
Platzee," "The He'll of BIackWell's
IsIand," and others.
A Wrangle between the lawyers, when
Most was asked whether he had written
book "On the Art OF Revolutionary
Warfare" He refused to answer on the
ground that the answer would tend to
CrimiDate him. HeSslso declined to an
sWer whether he believed that
MODERN EXPLOSIVES
were necessary 10 carry cut his ideas,
whether he had advised others as to the
cheapest manner Of manufacturing ex-
plosives, whether he had advised
that en- electric battery be used
at distance to explode dYna-
mite, whether when few moments
eau be used to get away fuse OF six or
eight inches will serve, whether he had
ssid that for an explosion n 3 crowd
shell is best, and it should be globular to
produce splendid results; whether he had
said that gas pipe with screwed caps will
produce brilliant results; whether he had
advised that fruit jar be filed with ben
zine, in which medicine glass flied with
powder and tightly closed, and having
fuse be placed, and that on bursting the
fiery benZine would scattered; whether
he advised the use Of o deadly poison on
arroWheads.
THE WITNESS GREW EXCITED
when these questions were asked, and
Ceclined to answer each one on the same
ground. He said vehemeGtly: "What
nave they to do with my speech at
Kraemer's hall?" But the Judge in each
case allowed the question.
The prosecution offered in evidence the
previous indictment Of Most, and the
record of trial and conviction, to
show that the book on "The
Art of Revolutionary Warfare" was not
introduced in evidence On Most's trial.
Mr.. Howe objected, saying it had been
introduced and excluded. Most said
Recorder Smythe had bitterly referred to
it and had really sentenced him on it.
This ended the evidence and the argu-
ments of counsel followed at once, &C.
cupying two hours.
Judge CoWing, in his charge, told the
Jury Most was not 10 be tried for his past
life nor for his belief, out for his
speech at Kraemers Hall. sour love
A.. .